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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FF48FB5A7E32FB3A" bold="true" box="[151,363,1196,1222]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Coleonyx elegans</emphasis>
Gray
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(Yucatan Banded Gecko)
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FF48FB027EC5FAF2" bold="true" box="[151,412,1268,1294]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Specimens analysed:</emphasis>
one female (CEAC8), two specimens from Petén,
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(UTA R 50283, UTA R 50286).
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FF1BFAC87E3EFAA4" bold="true" box="[196,359,1342,1368]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Distribution:</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FEB1FAC97E92FAA5" box="[366,459,1343,1369]" name="Mexico" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Mexico</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FE09FAC97D7DFAA5" box="[470,548,1343,1369]" name="Belize" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Belize</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FDEFFAC97DEBFAA5" box="[560,690,1343,1369]" name="Guatemala" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Guatemala</collectingCountry>
, and
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FD30FAC97C23FAA5" box="[751,890,1343,1369]" name="El Salvador" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">El Salvador</collectingCountry>
.
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FF1BFA927E00FA82" bold="true" box="[196,345,1380,1406]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Subspecies:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FEBDFA927EA6FA81" box="[354,511,1380,1405]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. e. elegans</emphasis>
Gray
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distributed from central Veracruz,
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to northern
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and
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and on the Pacific coast from eastern Chiapas,
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FCF2FA7C7CE9FA58" box="[813,944,1418,1444]" name="Guatemala" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Guatemala</collectingCountry>
to western
<collectingCountry id="F35C68B9FFEAF447FB9FFA7C7B8DFA58" box="[1088,1236,1418,1444]" name="El Salvador" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">El Salvador</collectingCountry>
;
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FB3EFA7C7AC5FA5F" box="[1249,1436,1418,1443]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. e. nemoralis</emphasis>
Klauber is localized along the Pacific coast of
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from Nayarit to southeast Oaxaca.
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Following
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, the diagnostic characters distinguishing the two subspecies of the Yucatan Banded Gecko are a non-triangular mental and the upper prenasals in contact in
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FBA2FA0C7A3FF9EF" box="[1149,1382,1530,1555]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. elegans elegans</emphasis>
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; the mental is usually triangular, the prenasals are usually not in contact, and there are fewer tubercular scales laterally in
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FEF9F9B27E81F9A1" box="[294,472,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. e. nemorali</emphasis>
s. The studied specimen from Chamela is within the range of
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FB09F9B27ACDF9A1" box="[1238,1428,1604,1629]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. e. nemoralis</emphasis>
, however, it represents intermediate morphological characters since the mental is clearly not triangular and since the upper prenasals are not in contact.
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<paragraph id="8BF42829FFEAF444FF1BF9427CB7FF07" blockId="9.[151,1437,1268,2004]" lastBlockId="10.[151,1437,152,514]" lastPageId="10" lastPageNumber="11" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FF1BF9427E0CF932" bold="true" box="[196,341,1716,1742]" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Karyotype:</emphasis>
this is the first description of the karyotype for this species. It shows 2n = 31 and FN = 32 (
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). The karyotype is composed of one single unpaired metacentric (the largest chromosome) and 30 acrocentric chromosomes. The metacentric chromosome clearly represents a Robertsonian fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes. Among the species studied, this karyotype is most similar to that described for
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FA5EF8D27E4DF89F" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. variegatus</emphasis>
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, with a 2n=32 all-acrocentric karyotype, but differs considerably from
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FBB7F8BC7BB9F89F" box="[1128,1248,1866,1891]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">C. switaki</emphasis>
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(2n = 24, FN = 26). Therefore, it is the first instance of chromosomal heteromorphism reported for
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. Few cases of heteromorphism due to Robertsonian fusion or fission have been reported in
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, e.g., in
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FA9BF8627E58F82F" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gehyra australis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FEE2F84C7E8AF82F" box="[317,467,1978,2003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">G. variegata</emphasis>
(
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)
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, in
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FD7FF84C7C3CF82F" box="[672,869,1978,2003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Gekko chinensis</emphasis>
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Lau
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FC7BF84C7CBBF82F" box="[932,994,1978,2003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">et al.</emphasis>
(1997)
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, in
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFEAF447FBB4F84C7A3AF82F" box="[1131,1379,1978,2003]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Phyllodactylus lanei</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see below) and in
<taxonomicName id="4C4B53AAFFE9F444FE95FF6E7C29FF4E" authority="King &amp; Rofe 1976" authorityName="King &amp; Rofe" authorityYear="1976" box="[330,880,152,178]" class="Reptilia" family="Gekkonidae" genus="Christinus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Squamata" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="marmoratus">
<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FE95FF6E7D31FF4D" box="[330,616,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Christinus marmoratus</emphasis>
(
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)
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. Clearly, additional data will be necessary to understand if this chromosomal heteromorphism represents a sex chromosome system, hybridization between chromosomal cytotypes or an intra-population autosomal polymorphism.
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FF1BFEF17EC1FEDD" bold="true" box="[196,408,263,289]" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">DNA taxonomy:</emphasis>
only one rDNA 16S sequence from
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FC81FEFE7CB9FEDD" box="[862,992,264,289]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. elegans</emphasis>
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is present in GenBank (
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) but the studied specimen belonged to a pet-shop (Yoshi Kumazawa, pers. comm.). For this reason we include two specimens from Petén (
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) belonging to the other subspecies,
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FB26FEA47ACCFE97" box="[1273,1429,338,363]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. e. elegans</emphasis>
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. The sequence of the specimen from Chamela differs by 4.5% with respect to the other haplotypes that are, conversely, very similar. This level of divergence is high but lower relative to that found between different species (
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FF23FE347EC3FE27" box="[252,410,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. variegatus</emphasis>
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vs
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FE1DFE347D73FE27" box="[450,554,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. brevis</emphasis>
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, 9.8%;
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FD59FE347C53FE27" box="[646,778,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. mitratus</emphasis>
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vs
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<emphasis id="B93FF43BFFE9F444FCEDFE347CF4FE27" box="[818,941,450,475]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">C. elegans</emphasis>
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, 1415.2%). In absence of additional data these results are in agreement with a subspecific status of the populations from Jalisco and
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.
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